Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel

Benjamin LaHaise
2005-12-05T23:08:04Z

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 04:47:55PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> So no in-kernel filesystem can get this right without help from userspace
> (even devfs had devfsd), and as soon as you've got a userspace daemon to tell
> the kernel who is who you might as well do the whole thing there, now that
> the kernel is exporting everyting _else_ we need to know via /sys
> and /sbin/hotplug.

/sbin/hotplug is suboptimal. Even a pretty fast machine is slowed down
pretty significantly by the ~thousand fork and exec that take place during
startup. For the most common devices -- common tty, pty, floppy, etc that
every system has, this is a plain waste of resources -- otherwise known as
bloat.

-ben
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